crypticSlave

I've encountered this multiple times in the past. Two years ago when I got my Corsair m65, I decided to set the polling rate to 1000hz because that should be better, right? Well immediately after that, I noticed that youtube videos would lag as soon as I started to move the mouse, Destiny 2 was unplayable, and a number of other games behaved oddly (Minecraft, PUBG, whatever else I was playing at the time). It took me three days to determine that my mouse wasn't defective and realize that it was the polling rate actually being detrimental to my pc (at the time a measly AMD FX6300 and a GTX 750). Lowered the polling rate to 500hz, and everything was fine afterwards. Stopped worrying about it. Fast forward a year later, I decided to try 1000hz again. In the last year I had gotten a few upgrades (AMD Ryzen 7 1700 and a GTX 980) and decided I should give a higher polling rate another shot. Well, it seemed to work for a while, everything functioned well enough, Youtube no longer lagged and D2 was still playable, so problem solved right? Well over time, I would notice random slowdowns in almost every game, for no explainable reason. The problem stood out the most in Minecraft, where I would get occasional "extreme" mouse acceleration for no clear reason, as well as frame rate dips left and right. Eventually it was annoying me so much that I started to dig around to find out what could be causing the issue, and eventually stumbled upon some posts talking about polling rate. I then remembered I had upped the polling rate at some point, turned it down, and voila, spontaneous acceleration issues gone. All my games stopped dipping in frame rate, and life seemed better. But to this day, it still bugs me to think about it. Some of my friends keep their mice at 1000hz, and they never have a single mousing issue (and it shows, they're better at video games than I am!) It would be nice if someone could do further investigating on the subject, maybe dig deeper to determine what the overall root cause of these seemingly random cases of polling rate issues is, and wether or not it's just incapable hardware or if Windows needs a serious overhaul (which I think it does for a number of reasons, but I'll leave that for another thread).

Are you using the latest release version or are you still on one of the beta builds? That looks like an issue I had with one of the earlier beta builds.

I mean that works too. Glad it's solved.

Might be an issue with the adapter. Looks like some of the amazon reviews report occasional oddities with that adapter. Hoping you can avoid having to send it back or anything, what's the usb cable on the adapter plugged into? If it's plugged into the pc, try plugging it into a wall and see if that changes anything. It could be that it's not getting enough power.

If you're talking about the two large partitions on "Disk 1," it looks like they're not formatted correctly. They should be NTFS, not RAW. Whatever you made those partitions with failed to format them correctly. Is there any data in those partitions? If there isn't, just reformat them in windows. If there is, you'll want to find a way to pull the data out of them first.

Unfortunately, none of these have the external drive mounts that I need for my Blu-Ray drive. Although kudo's to the last one. I'll have to consider it for a future build.

I recently acquired a new better graphic's card from a friend of mine (EVGA GTX 980 Classified Edition). Unfortunately, he did not fully inform me of what the graphics card was beforehand, and it turns out that the card I received will not fit my current case. Now, while I could just take a Dremel to my case to make room for the card, I'm considering getting a new case all together in order to put the least amount of effort into this upgrade. That being said, there are some preferences I would like to have met. The case I currently have is an NZXT Guardian 921 Red. I would like for the new case to be able to support 5.25" drives since I have a blu-ray drive installed in my current one. (A disc drive in a pc in 2017. Unbelievable right?) It would also be preferred to have support for 3.5" drives as well since I have a card reader as well, but it's not exactly a necessity since I think I have a mount somewhere that can make it fit in a 5.25" bay. Beyond that, the board I'm using is a ATX motherboard. I would prefer Mid-sized case, but if necessary I can make a Full-sized case work. I'd like to spend under $100(USD) but if something appeals to me for more I'll consider it. Anyone got any suggestions? (tl;dr, I'm an idiot and didn't check his specs before receiving a gift and now I have a card that doesn't fit in my rig, need a new case)

I'm pretty well versed in Audio

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